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In recent decades many attacks have been launched against the concept of taqlid [following a school of Islamic law]. Opposition has ranged from being mild with degrees of acceptance to malicious attacks. Certain extreme elements have gone so far as to brand those who follow a madhhab [school] as mushrik [polytheist]. Much of the opposition has been a result of misunderstanding the realities of this concept.

Ustadh Abu Aaliya is the director of Jawziyyah Institute in London. He has been engaged in delivering dawah and community work for over 20 years holding talks, circles and seminars in universities, Mosques and Islamic centers across the UK and abroad. He has studied with various scholars in particular Sheikh Abdullah Al Farsi and Sheikh 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Luwayhiq. He is well versed in the Arabic language and has been a prolific writer for many years having translated numerous scholarly works and books from Arabic to English such as Tenets of Faith, The Ideological Attack, Etiquettes of Differing, The Exquisite Pearl, Fadl 'Ilm al-Salaf (Virtue of Knowledge of the Predecessors) of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, and Bidâyat al-Sul fî Tafdîl ar-Rasul (Virtues and Status of the Prophet [pbuh]) of al-'Izz ibn 'Abd as-Salâm.

"Actions are lifeless forms, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity within them is what endows them with life-giving Spirit." (Hikam 10) The Shaykh discusses the nature and vitality of sincerity; the secret spirit which enlivens righteous deeds without which all would be void.

"Let no sin reach such proportions in your eyes that it cuts you off from having a good opinion of God, for, indeed, whoever knows his Lord considers his sin as paltry next to His generosity". (Hikam 49 Page 97) The Shaykh discusses the second part of the wisdom, the need for one to continue to have great hope in Allah Most High when overcome with the gloom of ones sins. The following quraanic verse is mentioned " Tell My Servants, I am the Most- Forgiving, the Very Merciful" (Surah Al Hijr: 49)

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"Let no sin reach such proportions in your eyes that it cuts you off from having a good opinion of God, for, indeed, whoever knows his Lord considers his sin as paltry next to His generosity". (Hikam 49, Page 97) The heart in its journey to Allah wavers between hope and fear. The lecture mentions why it is important for the one beginning the spiritual journey to predominantly hold on to the rope of fear, whereas, the one who is in the midst to balance both fear and hope and finally, why hope should be the stronger companion for the one whose journeying to Allah is almost complete.

Meet the Authors Shaykh Abu ’l-Hasan ‘Ali al-Hasani Nadwi (1332/1914–1420/1999), affectionately known as ‘Ali Miyan, was a leading intellectual and religious scholar of contemporary India. He wrote numerous books on history, biography, and contemporary affairs concerning both the Muslim community in India and Muslims abroad. He served as rector of the Nadwat al-‘Ulama’ seminary in Lucknow for a number of years, where he also taught Qur’anic exegesis, hadith, and Arabic literature, along with history and logic. He was a founding member of Rabitat al-Adab al-Islami al-‘Alamiyya (Universal League of Islamic Literature) in 1984 and was elected chairman of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board in 1985. A prolific writer, he penned a literary legacy of a few hundred works in both Arabic and Urdu. His works have been integrated into the curriculum in a number of universities in the Arab world. His most notable Arabic work, Ma-dha Khasir al-‘Alam bi ’nhitat al-Muslimin (What Did the World Lose by the Decline of the Muslims?), was widely acclaimed and carved a place for him in elite literary circles of the Arab world. Many of his works have since been translated into Arabic, English, Turkish, Bahasa Indonesia, Persian, and Tamil, among other languages. Karwan-i Zindagi, his eight-volume autobiography; Purane Chiragh (Ancient Lamps), comprising life sketches of contemporary personalities; his biographies of Sayyid Ahmad Shahid and Caliph ‘Ali (may Allah ennoble his countenance); and his Tarikh-i Da‘wat wa ‘Azimat (Saviours of Islamic Spirit) are seen as permanent contributions to Urdu literature. This monumental scholar passed away at the age of eighty-six on Friday 31 December 1999 (22 Ramadan 1420).

"A sign of the heart's death is the absence of sadness over the acts of obedience that you have neglected and the abandonment of regret over the mistakes that you have made" What is a living heart and what is a dead heart? What causes the heart to spiritually die and what factors enliven it? The following talk expounds with great detail the famous narration of the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) "the similitude of the one who remembers his Lord and the one who does not is like that of the living and the dead".